Do you mean the one about Sail Amsterdam?
We had an announcement before the video that every three months 'local needs' will be a video about donations and what the Borg is doing with all the money.
local needs= give more money 😡
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New video at meeting this week . . .
by neat blue dog inthere was a new video shown at the meeting this week not available to the rank and file, about a cart witnessing campaign.
usually these things are leaked well ahead of time, was this an exception?
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I went for the same reason I attend the meetings: out of respect for my husband. However, I very much dislike memorial evening. It's like alle crap packed together in one stupid puppetshow. Crap: Jesus only mediator for 144000. Paradise on earth (where does the bible speak of this?) 144.000. Annointed. FDS. Partakers Numbers going up and they still believe their own prophecies.
Attending was down, I think. 74. (Some years we had 110!). The brother who did the talk said: nobody here is going to partake, we all have a hope for paradise. HOW WOULD HE KNOW?
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THOUGHTS ON UPGRADING TO (Free) WINDOWS 10
by Terry ini've been using windows 7 for several years and have had no complaints.. i've tried many browsers and settled on google chrome.
it has absolutely everything i want or need.. i kept hearing about the free upgrade to windows 10, so i went to youtube and watched endless "reviews" pro and con.. what pushed me over the (microsoft edge) was the fact i could test drive the new operating system.
for 30 days and go back to windows 7 if i didn't like it!
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@ Anders Andersen, you leaving Linux is even more shocking to me than you leaving the Borg. What Happened!? Did new light come in through the Windows? -
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I remember when we studied the revelation book for the fifth time or so, stickers with changed text were handed out in our congregation, so we could stick them over the "old light" in the paragraphs. I thought it was weird, that there were SO MANY changes!
Also, regarding changes, in the yearbook 2016 is a list of recent changes. I think the r&f can't keep up with all the flip-flops any more.
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Tight Pants
by pixel intoday is friday.
so let's see something refreshing on the new june 2016 study wt.
tight pants!.
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I'm technically still in...and I didn't believe the picture was actually from the WT. I thought it was made up by Outlaw. 😳 I checked it and am flabbergasted that this was really taken from the WT. What's wrong with the suit?! -
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WT March 15, 2016 - Kids pressured toward baptism again
by Designer Stubble inthe study wt of march 2016 is up on jw.org and is the standard article around this time of year...pressuring young kids to dedicate their lives to the organization again.
this wt will be studied during may, so just in time to pressure them into baptism at the regional conventions this summer.such articles really upset me, as the realization of how many young promising lives will be destroyed.
how many families will be broken up, when the child who got baptized as a minor (ages 6 and up are mentioned in the literature) decides as a young adult that his/her conscience no longer allows him/her to be part of such a destructive cult.
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@ sugar shane.
When I learned ttatt ten years ago my children were 12 and 8 years old. My VERY JW husband and I had a rough time for quite a while. One thing that I thought to be very important to have an agreement on was to NOT push the children (or have any elder push them or ask them or whatever) towards baptism before the age of 18. (I figured by then they would be wise enough to choose otherwise.)
I told him that Jesus was 30 when he got baptised, so there was no 'biblical' reason to hurry. That, and the fact that we had seen so many young people being baptised only to be disfellowshipped later, and the pain their parents live in, was enough to convince him that baptism should not be hurried.
Both children are not (and will not be) baptized as far as I can see. They are 22 and almost 18, and indeed they know better now. :-)
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Omg New Borg Kingdumb Song, they went all Lion King theme Lol
by MrsR-Awaken inthe borg is turning into a disney music making machine check out their new kingdumb song (caution it might make your ears bleed).
https://youtu.be/goj1vbvqvhq.
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What really scares me is song 146. (Also on youtube with lyrics)
first line something about 'anointed heavenly bride'
chorus:
if you comforted them
you comforted me
if you did it for them
you did it for me
your labour for them
is labour for me
if you did it for them
you did it for me
you did it for them
you did it for me
I think the r&f will understand this as: 'do everything the faithfull slave* says, because you do it for Jesus himself'
That chorus will be song three times. Brainwashing, anyone?
*I think the r&f still don't get that 'the anointed' is not the FDS anymore.
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God & universe #1 - God's position and authority
by Anders Andersen inwhile thinking about the nature of god, i suddenly thought of something else: how jw speak about god in relation to the universe.. they say that.
jehovah created the universe.
destroying satan and answering the questions that were raised in eden will restore peace and unity in the whole universe.. .
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The more I think about it, the God as a spiritual person living in a spiritual place really doesn't make sense (even less than gods in general )
Just to be clear: thats not what JW believe. They believe in a spiritual god living in a specific real place. (see article I quoted)
But maybe that's new light from after you left. 😜
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God & universe #1 - God's position and authority
by Anders Andersen inwhile thinking about the nature of god, i suddenly thought of something else: how jw speak about god in relation to the universe.. they say that.
jehovah created the universe.
destroying satan and answering the questions that were raised in eden will restore peace and unity in the whole universe.. .
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Also, If God is (around the earth) in the universe, what with all the satellites and space debris?
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God & universe #1 - God's position and authority
by Anders Andersen inwhile thinking about the nature of god, i suddenly thought of something else: how jw speak about god in relation to the universe.. they say that.
jehovah created the universe.
destroying satan and answering the questions that were raised in eden will restore peace and unity in the whole universe.. .
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It may be a little beside your exact question, but I had a little discussion about something like this with my husband a few days ago.
He read this:
Does God Live in a Specific Location?
The Bible’s answer
Yes. God lives in a specific place—the heavens. Consider these Bible passages:
In a prayer, King Solomon said: “May you yourself listen from the heavens, your established place of dwelling.”—1 Kings 8:43.
Jesus Christ taught his disciples to address their prayers to their “Father in the heavens.”—Matthew 6:9.
After Jesus was resurrected, he entered “into heaven itself, now to appear before the person of God.”—Hebrews 9:24.
Those verses clearly indicate that Jehovah God is a real person and that he dwells, not everywhere, but only in heaven.
My understanding is, that 'heaven' can mean: spiritual place. Or: invisible.
So 'god and angels are in heaven' then would mean 'they are not material beings, but ghostlike spirits and/or invisible'. Like how JW understand the Bibleverse about 'new heavens and new earth"; it doesn't mean a real 'new heaven' and a literally 'new earth'. When Jesus went to heaven, he became invisible for people.
So my husband said: no, you're wrong, God lives in one place, that's what the Bible says.(well that's what he read on jw.org, he doesn't really know what the Bible says.)
But if God does live in a specific location, that must be a place. A place you can point at. A place you can find somewhere. A place you can travel to. Otherwise it's not a place, right?
If 'heaven' means a place you can point at, would that be that something like the sky? (yes, he said) But the sky, where? The sky above Europe? The sky above Australia?
No, my husband said. God is in the universe.
So the 'one place' is now 'the universe'. (And like you wrote; if God is IN the universe he created, that would be weird. Where did he live before?)
But If god is all around the earth (and not just in one place in the heaven/sky), and in the universe, that would mean he is everywhere, aka omnipresent. Something JW deny.
So I think they painted themselves in a corner.